. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ji^^ Fig. 132. Sawing on beittle wood from Tula- ROSA Cave. tremely neat finish and has been split from its fellow. Reducing wood to thin strips by splitting was apparently not practiced at the Tiilarosa Cave, but the offer- ings at the Bear Creek Cave, described on page 105, show that the practice was com- mon among the worshippers there. Beyond the hafted stone knives or dart heads (fig. 138, Cat. No. 246537, , 5^ inches long, blade \.\ inches long) no formal tools for woodworking are found in the Tularosa Cave, but many hand spall
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. ji^^ Fig. 132. Sawing on beittle wood from Tula- ROSA Cave. tremely neat finish and has been split from its fellow. Reducing wood to thin strips by splitting was apparently not practiced at the Tiilarosa Cave, but the offer- ings at the Bear Creek Cave, described on page 105, show that the practice was com- mon among the worshippers there. Beyond the hafted stone knives or dart heads (fig. 138, Cat. No. 246537, , 5^ inches long, blade \.\ inches long) no formal tools for woodworking are found in the Tularosa Cave, but many hand spalls of chal- cedony and basalt, some of which are chipped along one edge, occur in the debris. A most effective knife-saw, oblong-oval in shape with one straight edge serrated or smooth, is common over a great area on the southern Arizona mountain slope. A specimen in the collec- tion of P. G. Gates, found in the upper waters of the Salt River in the San Carlos Reserve, was bound up with a piece of wood which the saw had been used in cutting and deposited with a burial in a cave. This inter- esting specimen corroborates the use of the serrated flake as a wood- working tool. (See figs. 28-33.) No evidences of drilling wood were found in this locality, but examples. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt. of Docs. , U. S. Govt Print. Off.
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